The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-25
PERSONAL.

The young lady who figured in the Valentine
Baker affair is still alive and unmarried.
PRINCE LOUIS FERDINAND, of Bavaria, cousin
of the late mad king is practicing physician,
and has been actively engaged upon hospital
staff for several years.
PRESIDENT HENDRICKsoN, of Bell county, Ken
lucky, who has killed three men and wounded
another, is naivey described by the local press
as "an influential citizen a church member and
a dead shot"
JAMES PAWN, the once prolific novelist, who
has about abandoned the art of story telling
since he became the editor of the Cornhiu Mag
dzine, is soon to publish a new fiction entitled
"A Prince of the Blood"
TITS PROBABLE that next spring Queen Vic
tora will unveil the colossal bronze statue of
Gen. Gordon which is to be erected at Aberdeen
in front of the Art Gallery. The statue was
subscribed for by members of the Gordon clan.
GEORGE w. WILLIAMS of Ohio, who is now
accredited with the title of Colonel has just
published the second of two important hiStor-
zeal works Col Williams is the author of the
"Colored Race in the United States" and The
Colored Soldier
BARON AND BARONESS RosEN, of the Russian
Legation, are in New York city arranging for
their removal there soon, and TO meet Minister
de Strive, who will arrive Dec. 5. The Rosens
will then reside in New York, the Baron as Con
sui General, and Mr.. Alexander Greger will be
with Mr.. de Strive, as first secretary of lega-
ton, at Washington.
THE EARL OF DYsART who now honors New
York with his presence is a fairly good speci-
men of the red headed Scotch nobility. His
family is one of the old-timerS in the land of
thistleS and have what most of his lue-bloOded
fellow citizens have not-plenty of money. The
Earl does not spendmuch of it and is more no.
ted for his quality in gathering in shekels than
spending them. He is about 10 years of age and
his Cavnsm is as vermion-hued as his curly
locks.
INt ba owI y,,,bicba1 life nj prof Darwin hxy
his sons, the following sentences give the great
scientists views on some religious questions
"In my most extreme fluctuations have never
been an atheist in the sense of denying the ex
istence of a God. l think that generally land
more and more as grow older) but not always,
an agnostic would be the more correct descrip-
ton of my state of mind. For myself, do not
believe that there ever has been any revelation
As for a future life, every man must judge for
himself between conflicting vague probable
ties"
LIEUT.. Gov. r. S. HONEY of Rhode Island, has
just got over the effects of trip to Europe. He
has been thirty years in America where be
came a barefooted boy from Lancashire. He
never went back until last summer, and he
would not have gone then only he had just been
elected to the second highest office in his State.
He whooped things up for the boys in the little
country town where he used to make mud pies
and they thought him very big man and he is
a very rich one. During the canvass last year
in his State some irreverent Republicans accused
Mr.. Honey of being an lrishman and denying his
country. He had to prove to the irritated Green
Islanders of the State that he was really a native
of England before they would vote for him, and
then they elected him by an unusual majority.
MRS CLEVELAND will resume her afternoon
receptions about the middle of December. At
these receptions only those ladies with whom
Mrs. Cleveland is socially intimate. the wives
and daughters of the members of the diplomatic
corps, the members of the families of Cabinet
Ministers and Senators and others who are in
the White House circle are expected to be
present. They are not intended for the general
public, but simply to give Mrs. Cleveland an
opportunity of seeing her many friends just in
the same way that the wife of any other promi-
nent parsonage is at home on certain afternoons
to her social acquaintances. During the winter
Mrs. Cleveland will hold three and perhaps four
afternoon public receptions al which anybody
can pay his or her respects TO the lady of the
White House. Mrs. Cleveland will be assisted
by the ladies of the Cabinet and such other
friends as she may invite. These receptions
last winter were attended by thousands, and SO
great was the crush many people were unable to
gain admittance to the White House